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January 25, 2002. Korolev, Moscow area.
On the Iternational Space Station (ISS), the fourth expedition
crew ISS-4 has completed an EVA.
The objective of the EVA was to install scientific equipment
on the outer surface of the ISS Russian Segment and to removed
some equipment that had been exposed to space environment,
to install gas protection devices and ham radio antenna,
and to inspect some structural elements of the ISS.
The exit hatch of the Russian Docking Compartment-module
Pirs was opened on January 25, 2002, at 18:19, Moscow Time.
The work in the open space was performed by Russian cosmonaut
Yuri Onufrienko (Expedition Commander) and US astronaut
Daniel Bursch (Flight Engineer 2). US astronaut Carl Walz
(Flight Engineer 1) stayed inside the space station and
was checking the work progress against the on-board documentation.
Installed on the surfaces of Russian modules Pirs and Zvezda
are removable containers/cartridges that hold samples of
structural materials for outer surfaces of ISS and advanced
spacecraft for exposure to space environment.
Also installed on the Zvezda Service Module (SM) were: ham
radio antenna with its connecting cables, "Platan-M"
scientific equipment developed by Ioffe Physics and Technology
Institute of St. Petersburg to study heavy nuclei in low-energy
cosmic rays; six gas protection devices for the module attitude
control thruster units, that considerably reduce the level
of contamination from these thrusters propellant combustion
products on the outer surface of the space station.
Dismantled from SM were "Kromka" scientific equipment
units designed to study quantitative distribution and chemical
composition of combustion products exhausts from the module
attitude control thrusters. these units were replaced with
similar ones.
Yuri Onufrienko and Daniel Bursch visually inspected SM
window and having completed their work in open space returned
to the Pirs module bringing with them the dismantled equipment
and tools that supported their work in open space. The exit
hatch of the Pirs module was closed on January 26 at 00:18.
The work in space lasted 5 hours 59 minutes.
In the course of the work the crew photographed the work
results.
This was the second EVA performed by Expedition ISS-4 crew.
The reports from the crew and the Lead Operations Control
Team (LOCT) who control and monitor the space station mission
from the Mission Control Center near Moscow (the Flight
Director is cosmonaut V.A.Soloviev), the crew is in good
health and ISS on-board systems operate within design limits.
Present during EVA operations at the Mission Control Center
were specialists from S.P.Korolev RSC Energia and its subcontractors.
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